Office Accounting Express 2009 is an essential tool for managing your everyday business finances. Ideal for home-based businesses, this easy-to-use accounting program makes pen and paper-based tasks a thing of the past. With the familiar look and feel of Microsoft Office, Office Accounting Express 2009 is easy to use and helps you save time, get organized, and do business online.

You only need to enter data once so you can save time managing everyday financial tasks. All of your customer and financial information is stored in one place so that you have a complete view of your business. Integrated tools help you sell online through eBay and get paid faster.

Office Accounting Express 2009 is perfect for millions of starting businesses and home based businesses that currently use pen and paper or spreadsheets to run their business. It provides a single place to manage the company’s business finances with the familiar look and feel of Microsoft Office system programs.

Office Accounting Express 2009 offers the following benefits:

Easy to learn and use

• The Startup Wizard gets your company set up within minutes.
• The Resource Center provides a single location to access helpful demos, step-by-step guides, and more.
• Because Office Accounting Express 2009 shares the same familiar look and feel of other Microsoft Office programs, it is easy to get started right away.
• Easily import data from other programs such Microsoft Office Excel and Sage.

Save time managing everyday tasks

• Share and re-use information, enter information only once, and reduce errors.
• Create customized estimates, invoices, and purchase orders.
• Track expenses automatically.
• Automate bank accounts and customer payments.
• Manage payroll with integrated payroll service.¹

Store and organize all your information in one place

• Store and organize customer, contact, employee, vendor, and financial information in a single location.
• Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager and Office Accounting Express 2009 share the same data so you always have up-to-date information on your customers.
• Create templates for documents and customize any form to suit your needs.

See how your business is doing at a glance

• Get real-time insights into your business by using more than 20 predefined reports.
• Export reports to Office Excel 2007 for further analysis in just one click.
• Easily share information with your accountant.
• Share your books with your accountant and still continue using them for your day-to-day business.
• Share data more securely with your accountant via Microsoft Office Live.

Easily sell on eBay

• A step-by-step wizard helps you list items for sale from your Office Accounting inventory and download completed transactions once your items have sold.

Read the Office Accounting 2009 edition comparison.

Accounting Professionals should use the Office Accounting Professional 2009 that has special features to enable accounting professionals to be more productive.

• Accountant Transfer Wizard. Clients can now send their books to their accountants and still continue to use Office Accounting Express 2009 for their daily business. Accounting professionals can work on the books and send them back, and the changes get synchronized easily. Alternatively, accounting professionals can also remotely connect to their client’s copy of Office Accounting Express 2009 and update their books.
• Accountant View. From this central location, accountants can independently manage client accounts and payroll, import and export client data, and create journal entries for each client.
• Accountant Business Template Export. CPAs can set up clients with a custom chart of accounts based on a template they create.
• Show/Hide voided documents. Instantly see voided transactions so you can more easily spot mistakes or unusual transactions.
• Enhanced Cash Basis Accounting. Accountants have the flexibility to customize Cash Based Reporting settings for each client’s accounts based on the nature of their business. This helps ensure more accuracy as the transactions are captured on the basis of these settings.
• Payroll Center for accountants. Accounting Professionals can collaborate and share financial information more securely with their clients by using the Microsoft Office Live service.
• Microsoft Office Live integration. Accountants can now run and manage payroll processing for multiple clients from a single dashboard.

Office Accounting Express 2009 is designed for millions of starting businesses and home-based businesses that currently use pen and paper or spreadsheets to run their operations. Businesses that grow and need an accounting system that supports inventory, multiple users, or a larger server based database (SQL Server) can upgrade seamlessly to Office Accounting Professional 2009.

• The Resource Center with an accountant finder, demos, community tools, and product resources provides a single place to get great help and how-to information.
• Bulk e-mail documents such as Microsoft Office Word, XPS, PDF attachments, or HTML.
• Enhanced Microsoft Office Excel import allows you to import transactions.
• Enhanced Competing Accounting Software Import Tool makes it even easier to import your books from competing applications into Microsoft Office Accounting.
• Enhanced online banking makes it easier to download bank statements.
• Enhanced integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office system provides access to Excel and Access reports from within Office Accounting.
• Enhanced ordering workflow makes ordering more efficient.

Yes. Office Accounting Express 2009 is designed to work with payroll services to help you manage your payroll process more efficiently. Based on your business needs, you can choose among the various payroll services options and begin subscribing at one of the most competitive prices in the industry.

The following add-on services can be used within Office Accounting Express 2009 to help small businesses be more productive and efficient:

• Payroll services to help streamline the payroll process.
• Office Live services to help you share financial data with others and to sell online from your Web site.
• PayPal integration to help you get paid faster.
• Buy cheques and business stationery option to easily order custom business forms.
• Online banking to help you save time.
• Credit card processing to better serve your customers.

Office Accounting Express 2009 is available for free as a download.

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Office Accounting Express 2009 is designed to be used on a single desktop.

Office Accounting Express 2009 is so easy to install, you don’t need any IT staff. The startup wizard gets your company set up, connected, and working right away so you can be writing your first invoice within minutes. The familiar and intuitive interface makes Office Accounting Express 2009 easy to learn and use right out of the box.

You can install one copy of Office Accounting Express 2009 on your main computer and another on your laptop computer for your exclusive but non concurrent use. On the same computer, you can install or reinstall as many times as you like.

Yes. You can set up and run multiple companies from the same copy but all users need to have separate licenses. There is no limit on the number of companies you can run.

Go to the system requirements page for more information.

Office Accounting Express 2009 has been designed to work smoothly with other Microsoft Office system programs. Its integration with Office Word enables you to customize any documents like quotes and invoices by using existing or new templates.

You can then use e-mail to send these invoices to your customers by using Office Outlook 2007. The integration with Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager helps ensure that all financial and marketing information is available centrally, and changes made in any one program automatically show up in the other. Furthermore, Office Outlook users can view financial information from within Office Outlook, use Office Outlook to create invoices, submit timesheets from Office Outlook, and track time in the Office Outlook calendar. Reports for business insight can be created in Office Accounting Express 2009 and then exported to Office Excel, with its rich formatting, for deeper analysis and calculations. The analysis pack included with Office Accounting Express 2008 enables viewing financial data in Office Excel, PivotTable reports, and Microsoft Office Access reports.

Yes, Office Accounting Express 2009 works with Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003. However, some features may not be supported by older releases.

Yes, a full version of Office Accounting Express 2009 is available as a download here.

Within Office Accounting Express 2008, you can click on the "Upgrade Today!" button. This brings up the upgrade dialog where you can link to either buying the key for Office Accounting Professional 2008 from an online retailer or a list of physical retailers. To upgrade to Office Accounting Professional 2008, you just need to enter the key into the dialog. (You don't need to download additional software.)

Office Accounting Express 2008 is designed to run on a single desktop. The desktop operating system can be Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.